Pulling Power
As a player you might, at times, think about ways you can improve your contribution to your team. Alternatively you might be looking for a way to differentiate yourself from other players, developing a skill that sets you apart and…
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Mechanics of Pulling – Core Power
This is an instructional video talking about how you can use your core for more power on your pulls and how to engage your entire body instead of only using your arm.
Mechanics of Pulling – Footwork and Approach
This is an instructional video showing the footwork and approach elements which are crucial in becoming a better puller. In this video I discuss my approach to the throw and where I’ve gained my inspiration from.
Mechanics of Pulling – Angle of the Disc and Throwing with Edges
This is an instructional video showing the different angles/edges you can throw on a pull and when it’s appropriate to use either one. I also talk about the position of the shoulders and arms to get the most power out…
Mechanics of Pulling – Sample Pulls and Final Thoughts
This is an instructional video showing some sample pulls. It was tough to film the entire pull so what I do is just show me throwing and then let you know the result of the pull. I also offer up…
Pulling the Disc in Ultimate
Why is pulling so important?
You want your team to start on D in the best possible position. This happens when the best puller on the team (NOTE: not the best thrower) pulls. Every pull is huge no matter if it's to start the game or if you're pulling on universe point (game tied - next point wins). A bad pull will give the other team an advantage before they even catch the disc so you want to have the best pull every time.
Space Disc – Physically Distanced Ultimate
Space Disc fundamentally removes the riskiest element of ultimate. This article was written by Pepper Williams, the inventor of Space Disc. Here in Portland, Oregon, we have a thriving masters/grandmasters/great-grandmasters ultimate community. We’ve had a pickup game literally every Sunday…
A Good Pull is Like Having an 8th Defender
A good pull is like having an 8th defender on the field. The goal is to get the disc as far down the field with as much hang time as possible, to give the pulling team time to run down…
The Art and Psychology of the Ultimate Pull
I retired from playing and competing in all disc sports exactly thirty years ago. Playing since the 1960s, injuries and my age over a twenty-year career said it was time to move on. Changing all the activities in my life,…
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About Ultimate Rob Rob McLeod is a motivational speaker and frisbee ambassador living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He has 13 Guinness World Records, 14 World Championships and the Canadian Distance Record. He started playing ultimate in 2001 and recently won…
How to Improve Your Pull
I’ve been writing and talking about ways to improve your pull for more than 5 years. In this video, I reference some of the content I’ve already published but I bring forward my most current knowledge on throwing and pulling…
How to Build a Team
For all those great teams to have become great, there had to be a starting point. You think the University of Alabama just magically got good at football? Although Nick Saban might as well be a Houdini, magic isn’t the…
Throwing Drills To Do On Your Own
For me, I approach throwing practice for ultimate much like practicing hitting balls/putting for golf. You want to focus on repetition, different throws (forehand, backhand, hammer, scoober, etc), different lengths (short, medium, long, hucks and pulls) and different situations (like…
2012 Year in Review
I’d like to thank you for your support in 2012. I was busy between ultimaterob.com, competing in frisbee competitions and running throwing clinics. Ultimaterob.com 2012 Highlights 2012 was the best year so far for ultimaterob.com. The top 10 visited posts…
Pull Diagonally and Have Better Pulls
At the 2008 Canadian Ultimate Championships, my men’s team from Calgary, Invictus, was playing the men’s team from Montreal, Mephisto, in the semi finals. A good friend of mine, Elliot Negelev was watching our game and after one of my…
Fan Feedback
As the title alludes to, I’m looking for some topic suggestions from my fans I have quite a few that are in draft stage but if you have some current/urgent questions for me, I can make sure that those will…
Specific Feedback for Your D Game
Giving quality feedback in ultimate can be challenging. Here is a list of skills that can help selectors, coaches and team leaders give more meaningful feedback to players other than “work on your marking”. Each dotpoint has some specific examples…
Kevin “Skippy Jammer” Givens
Note from Ultimate Rob: I am trying to get some more historical posts on frisbee from the past since it’s contributed to the current state of ultimate. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, the top frisbee players did all the…
The Evolution of Disc Sports
Prior to 1968 there was no cohesive unified “Frisbee’ culture, and really no discs sports per se. Regionally isolated pockets of Frisbee activity existed all over the country ranging from casual tossing and catching to relatively organized and structured games…
What I Like Most About Ultimate
In his first post on Ultimate Rob, Stephen Winters shares with us a free flowing poem of sorts, roughly titled “What I Like Most About Ultimate”. He definitely captures the spirit of ultimate in his post. Look for more from…
Ultimate Frisbee Drills – MTA’s (Maximum Time Aloft)
If you spend a lot of time practicing throwing by yourself, a great drill is throwing MTA’s. MTA or Maximum Time Aloft is all about trying to have the disc stay in the air as long as possible. This is…